Introducing Simple Spam Shield: The lightweight, 100% private WordPress plugin that blocks 99% of spam bots—without frustrating CAPTCHAs or slow, third-party APIs.

Are Your Anti-Spam Tools More Annoying Than the Spam Itself?

If you run a WordPress site, you're stuck with two terrible choices to fight spam:

1. You Annoy Your Visitors: You install a CAPTCHA. You force every real, valuable reader to solve a blurry puzzle, pick out traffic lights, or do math just to leave a comment. This creates friction, kills engagement, and makes people leave your site.

2. You Share Your Users' Data: You use a heavy, API-based plugin (like Akismet). This sends every comment, IP address, and email to a third-party server for analysis. This slows your site with external calls and creates a privacy nightmare (especially with regulations like GDPR).

It's a "solution" that punishes your legitimate audience and compromises their data.

It's Time for a Smarter, Simpler Solution

Simple Spam Shield is a powerful, set-and-forget plugin that works entirely on your own server.

No external calls. No data sharing. No puzzles.

It just works.

Simple Spam Shield doesn't try to guess if your visitor is human. Instead, it uses a 4-layer shield to prove they're a bot. It's an invisible defense that your real users will never see, but spam bots can't escape.

Our 4-Layer "Smart Shield" Technology

Simple Spam Shield combines four powerful, proven anti-spam techniques into one lightweight plugin.

1. The "Honeypot" Trap (Catches 90% of Bots) An invisible form field is added to your comment form. Humans can't see it, but bots are programmed to fill out every field. When they do, they're instantly flagged as spam and blocked.

2. The "Speed Test" (Time Check) A real person takes time to read your post, scroll down, and type a thoughtful reply. A bot submits the form in milliseconds. Our plugin blocks any submission that is inhumanly fast (e.g., under 5 seconds).

3. The "Bouncer" (Keyword Blocking) We've built in a robust, curated blocklist of hundreds of the most common spam keywords, phrases, and domains (e.g., "viagra", "crypto", ".xyz", ".biz"). This list catches spam that looks legitimate but is pushing known spam topics.

4. The "Link Limiter" (Stops Backlink Spam) The #1 goal of spam is to get backlinks. This layer automatically blocks any comment that contains more than two links—a classic sign of a low-quality, spammy comment.

Why Simple Spam Shield is the Better Choice